Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones: Sure is. But maybe one of Detroit's big troubles is that it made its cars too well; they don't wear out fast enough. Let me read you something from London's Spectator. One of its writers, who has driven every sort of foreign car, gives his considered view of American cars as follows: "The reason I particularly like the Thunderbird is that everything works. Nothing goes wrong. Everything has a solid feel, all accessories seem to be infallible...
...Krim as merely cool and lucky gamblers. But they are much more than that. They have a keen artistic sense, will not agree to finance a movie and distribute it unless the "package'' is right; i.e., the script, stars, producer and director all fit together. They read 50 to 60 scripts a week, back their artistic judgment with two of the shrewdest business brains in moviemaking...
...from the Bolingen Foundation. Excavation could go on indefinitely, however. "As long as you dig you can always use more money," Professor Hanfmann says. At Sardis, he hopes to find clues to the Lydian language, which still baffles philologists. "We have a few samples now, but most of them read: 'This is the tomb of so and so, whosoever violates it will have to pay a fine'--Well, you can't get very far that way." He also plans to find archeological evidence that the ancients believed that Bacchus, god of wine, was born on a mountain near Sardis...
...times the social intercourse threatens to submerge the literary culture. It is of course difficult to have a Platonic dialogue at lunch, but the general flow of conversation tends to center about daily affairs, topical anecdotes, and private and public gossip. There are virtually no more meetings to read papers or hold serious discussions. The concern for academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather...
...initiations have also descended in quality. Originally the new members were given a speech by the president, welcomed into the Society, and then asked to read "parts," or papers on various topics. Later on, the ceremony was elaborated into a parody of the Oral Exams. Nowadays, the initiations are preceded by a cocktail hour, and a semi-sober group shouts nonsense while the novitiate attempts to read his part. It is usually not even witty, and it is certainly never an academic discipline. There has recently been a move to reform these affairs, and the next initiation is expected...